Stick with Rivers of Asia
Rivers Of Asia is napped (again!) for a five-runner 3-y-o Maiden Stakes over an extended mile of Wolverhampton Tapeta tonight; last week trainer Philip McBride’s withdrew this thrice-raced, 78-rated,...
View ArticleJones targets top of Champions League
Out-of-favour T&T defender Alvin Jones is targeting reaching the group stages of this year’s Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League with reigning Digicel T&T Pro League champions, DirecTV W...
View Article39 phones and ammo found in prison search
National Security Minister Edmund Dillon and Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi were on hand on Wednesday night to witness a search of the Port-of-Spain prison which yielded a number of illegal items,...
View ArticleBoldon says relay teams can make difference in Rio
Former national sprint legend Ato Boldon believes strong performances by this country’s relay teams in recent times can lead T&T to its best ever medal haul at the Rio Olympics from August 5-21...
View ArticleTroubled Hart wants proper tools
WALTER ALIBEYA troubled national football coach Stephen Hart maintains he will resign if he does not get the tools necessary to properly prepare the Soca Warriors to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in...
View ArticleCricket’s ‘Big Three’ to see powers reduced by ICC
DUBAI—The power of India, Australia, and England in world cricket is set to be reduced as part of wide-ranging reform measures by the sport’s governing body to improve its image.“No member of the ICC...
View ArticleSir Viv backs new T20 league to take off
DUBAI—West Indies icon Sir Vivian Richards likes the potential of the inaugural Pakistan Super League and says the tournament has the ability to take off once it attracts the right mix of players. Sir...
View ArticleBIR to penalise VAT culprits
The Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) will deal with culprits charging more than the 12.5 Value Added Tax rate where necessary. Fast food establishments should also be using the 12.5 per cent VAT rate,...
View ArticleTruck driver buried alive
A routine trip to a Claxton Bay quarry turned fatal for a La Brea truck driver after he was buried alive in a mudslide on Wednesday.By the time Ricardo Caton, 52, was dug out from under the dirt and...
View ArticleCompact Soca Monarch show tonight
Tonight, 20 artistes will present their best possible performances to audiences at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in a tighter, more compact and better produced International Soca Monarch Competition.The...
View ArticleUnfair criticism for moko jumbie mas
To say the moko jumbie is not mas is to insult the people who dedicate their lives to the craft.This was the opinion of eight-time Carnival King Peter Samuel.Samuel, who played Tan Tan and Saga Boy,...
View ArticlePanic as SWRHA moves to cut temporary jobs
Staff of the South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) went into panic on Wednesday night as a memorandum circulated by the Chief Executive Officer hinted at job and salary cuts.The memo is titled...
View ArticleDallsingh is Queen again
Reigning Carnival Queen Gloria Dallsingh capped off a fantastic season on Wednesday night when she and her son, Marlon Rampersad, completed a hat-trick in the Kings and Queens competition, titled Night...
View ArticleOnly birds and bandits
Birds and bandits. This is all the Central Market in Sea Lots, Port-of-Spain, has to offer vendors who are to be removed from the Salvatori building site. Spokesman for the vendors, Steve Fletcher,...
View ArticleBandit grabs $7,000 bank deposit and shoots worker
A betting shop employee who tried to retreive his employer’s bank deposit from an armed bandit was shot twice in the thigh during a daylight robbery in San Fernando yesterday.André Lovelace, 47, was...
View ArticleWe can do better by homeless people, stray animals
Dear Mr President: I hope you get this letter of concern about the large number of homeless people (on the streets of PoS), also stray dogs and cats. I believe that humans have been put on the earth to...
View ArticleTwo teenaged students missing
The police are seeking the public's assistance in locating two secondary students who have gone missing.The two 15-years-old were reported missing by their parents in two separate incidents.According...
View ArticleMurders in Toco, Moruga raise toll to 51
The murder toll has now risen to 51 with the murders of a Moruga woman and a man from Toco. This morning, at about 2.40 am, Ishma Ali, 39, from L’anse Mitan Road Moruga was sleeping in her home when...
View ArticleCall an Environmental State of Emergency now
On the eve of Lent, thousands of dead fish have once again started to wash ashore daily since January 31, on the beaches of La Brea. These are the same beaches where Petrotrin used Corexit 95 in...
View ArticleGypsy accepts blame for state of economy
Newly-crowned extempo champ and former government minster Winston “Gypsy” Peters yesterday accepted responsibility for the alleged mismanagement of the economy during the People’s Partnership...
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